Lol handy indeed. I had forgotten how many battles were fought on those planes. Though it was some kind of topoi before the Vulgar Holy War so that couldn't have affected it, unless there is a question of magnitude (how deep the stain).

Though it would be difficult to determine, since you got the whole No-God death thing blocking any kind of causality.

Contests of faith? I guess that would depend on the faith and how 'valid' it was. 2 false faiths aren't going to change anything. But wars between the cults? Maybe that could affect something. I'd say... More susceptible. The clash of different beliefs rubbing against each other, if intense enough, could weaken or tear the barrier between the world and the outside.

All viable really. Except I think Batman would have trouble against a swarm of dunyain.

Well it seemed that Locke was implying at least 2 other screws. How do we know of either? The pit that Titirga fell into was not a screw at all. It was a standard mansion, and all the floors happened to collapse one on top the other.

How do we know that there are more than the one screw at Cil'?

That is certainly a good point. Was Mengedda a particularly big battle? I thought that was a kind of 'last stand' for humans, but that doesn't mean it was particularly big, considering how many were already dead.

The only other topos we know about id Cil' right? And that was hundreds/thousands of years of torture.

Though, it is possible that being eaten by a good could be intensely pleasurable experience. The gods could certainly change how the human soul experiences the sensation, maybe 'hell' is simply a perception  change. Some gods make their food happy, other like the misery. To the human observation it would all look like souls being consumed.

Which leads to the same conclusion, that being cut off from the gods ceases any reason for living, though it changes the destination from "hell" to simply "outside"

That would be really interesting. I wonder what Inrau looked like as he died? Faithful servant until just before death, than a blasphemer...

I don't see it. Moe wasn't doing that much conditioning, really. He had Maitha do most of his work, and he couldn't do much in Fanim territory anyway. He only had 1 half-son to deal with, and no armies to lead.

Kellhus had to condition the entire world. Moe had only to condition his sons.